Round headlights are the only right headlights.

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So the best way to keep the roads safe at night is to buy the area’s allocation of one Arteon and don’t drive it?

Simple reason, you’re not the only road user affected by your headlights.

But it’s probably just way more expensive. Most VTOL planes take off from aircraft carriers, it seems. So runway space is at a premium. Runways on land don’t generally have that problem, so there’s no significant driving force to develop a product.

First, a sincere “thank you” for the link. It’s a good read.

Roads are used by everyone, the vast majority of whom aren’t going to the Cars & Crashes event. But an asshat breaking the law is ruining everyone’s fun so <checks notes> you’re okay with that so long as they get a stiff penalty.

Why no reset?

Now you’re just being asinine.

It’s not a change of subject. A 50 ton payload for a modern airship is 20% that of the 747 cargo. There are no feasible larger modern airships.

I think the new ones above the old ones look far better. Less plastickyoooooh the new ones are below?

And that brings up another point.

I thought that’s where this would end up, yeah. It’s horrible, you’re used it, and yet you’re still not used to it.

This is the same story with Britain vs the Mainland - the British loading gauge is still stuck with bridges and tunnels which were built 200 years ago for horse drawn waggons so everything’s squashed, but across Europe there are double-decker passenger rail services you can set your watch by.

...which ably demonstrates my point. Why are civilian IC-VTOL craft not being developed?

You clearly haven’t lived in southern Arizona...

Airships can carry only about 20% the cargo of a 747. To efficiently replace 747s you’d need at least 2½× their number in airships to carry the same cargo. When some of that cargo needs refrigeration, you’d be sacrificing some of the payload to that equipment.

He is very abundant in the universe

Meanwhile since you can’t create it efficiently, there’s a finite supply.

I’m scratching my head wondering how they got from “IC-powered rotary wing craft” to “electric-powered VTOL”. What’s the relative efficiency of IC-powered VTOL? How does that fit in here? Why isn’t it more prevalent? Market inertia? complexity? sunk cost/efficiency of design in helicopters? What’s the deal?